Buyers’ remorse is starting to set in for some of President Donald Trump’s voters, longtime Republican strategist Sarah Longwell suggested on Wednesday.
Essentially, nothing has changed for those who backed Trump for the “one very specific reason” that they believed “things are too expensive,” Longwell told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace.
And now, Longwell said, those voters are being increasingly caught up in the chaos of the Elon Musk-run Department of Government Efficiency’s “vast” and brutal cuts that are having negative consequences nationwide.
“You can see it in the poll numbers. I can hear it in the focus groups, like it’s already starting to turn,” said Longwell, founder of Republican Voters Against Trump group and publisher of the center right-leaning Bulwark website.
“And that is a bad sign for Trump because honeymoons, even for him he was getting a pretty muted honeymoon, but honeymoons still usually last a little bit longer than this,” she added.
To hammer the point home, Wallace aired audio of one focus group member who said:
There’s a lot of babies being tossed out with the bath water, to use an old-fashioned phrase, in this first few weeks. I’m disappointed about this with President Trump because he served before, we’re just forfeiting respect internationally daily. If we had a drinking game where everyone took a drink when the word ‘reverse course’ or ‘walking this back,’ we’d be drunk in 20 minutes. It’s chaos up there.
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